Witnesses of the riots that took place in Alma-Ata in December 1986, talk about the events (synchronously). A student accused of the riots, K. Rakhmetov, answers the judge's questions during a court hearing in Alma-Ata in January 1987 (synchronously). The judge announces the verdict (synchronously). Interviewing witnesses in court. The emigrants who returned from the USA to the USSR talk about their life abroad, about the reasons that prompted them to return to their homeland (synchronously).